March 19 (BTA) - Prime Minister Boyko Borissov held a meeting with a Qatari delegation led by Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Ali Al-Thani and including representatives of the Qatar Investment Authority, the government's information service said in a press release on Monday. The meeting is...

March 19 (BTA) - Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Krassimir Karakachanov said here on Monday that he mulls inviting "all aircraft manufacturers who can offer both new or used aircraft". These will include the hitherto candidates Eurofighter, Gripen and F-16, "but we als...

March 19 (BTA) - The negotiations of the Bulgarian State with the two US-owned TPPs on termination of their electricity sale agreements will take months rather than weeks, Deputy Energy Minister Zhecho Stankov told journalists on Monday.

March 19 (BTA) - Forty per cent of the Bulgarians think that this country copes well with the ongoing EU Presidency, according to the first part of a poll conducted by the Trend research centre and commissioned by "24 Chassa" which studied people's attitudes towards the main poli...

March 19 (BTA) - Cooperation with the Western Balkans and cyber security are in the focus of the meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Scrutiny Group on Europol (JPSG), it transpired at the opening of the event in Sofia on Monday by Bulgarian National Assembly Internal Security and ...

March 18 (BTA) - The Joint Parliamentary Scrutiny Group on EUROPOL (JPSG) is meeting in Sofia on Sunday and Monday. This is the fourth event of the parliamentary dimension of the Bulgarian EU Council Presidency and the second JPSG meeting since its establishment.

March 17 (BTA) - A documentary exhibition entitled "The Unknown Rayko Alexiev" is on at the Sofia City Library to mark the 125th anniversary of the birth of renowned cartoonist Rayko Alexiev. On display are drawings, cartoons and articles published in the "Shturets" [Cricket] sat...

March 17 (BTA) - Just 3 per cent of the milk products checked in 2017 were substandard, said the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency (BFSA). On its suggestion for two years now, a commission of representatives of the Agency, the Association of Milk Processors, the National Association o...

March 16 (BTA) - Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva talked in Sarajevo with the chief diplomats of the Western Balkans countries which have not joined the EU yet, the Foreign Ministry said.

March 16 (BTA)- The Bulgarian Medical Union (BMU) signed a cooperation agreement with the European Union of Medical Specialists. The document makes it possible to align the criteria for ongoing medical training with the European ones and certify medical forums according to Europe...

March 16 (BTA) - Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov conferred here on Friday with the Commissioner General of the Belgian Federal Police Catherine De Bolle, who will take office as Executive Director of Europol on May 1, 2018, the Government Information Service said.

March 16 (BTA) - In mid-February the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) sent a letter to Bulgaria's National Electric Company (NEK) expressing interest in the project to build a nuclear power plant at Belene, Bulgarian Energy Minister Temenouzhka Petkova said, addressing P...

March 16 (BTA) - The revision of the Posted Workers Directive will increase the income of many Europeans, including of Bulgarian citizens working abroad, the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB) said in a position circulated on Friday. The position backs ...

March 15 (BTA) - The Bulgarian Foreign Ministry said on Friday that there are no reports so far of any Bulgarian nationals having been hurt in Thursday's collapse of a newly built pedestrian bridge linking the City of Sweetwater with the Florida International University campus.

March 16 (BTA) - In 2017, there were 206,900 unemployed persons (114,200 men and 92,800 women), 16.3 per cent fewer than in 2016, the National Statistical Institute reported on Thursday, detailing the results of its labour force survey.

March 15 (BTA) - Austrian Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz is paying a visit to Sofia on Thursday. The guest conferred with Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, after which the two officials gave a news conference. Austria is the next country in 2018 after Bulgaria to hold the rotatin...

March 15 (BTA) - At a conference entitled "A Vision of Early Childhood in Bulgaria", the For Our Children Foundation concluded that there are negative trends in Bulgaria in key child welfare indicators, which show that the national policy and the institutional framework are faili...

March 15 (BTA) - The Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) announced it was notified on Wednesday of the intention of Inercom Bulgaria to become the sole owner of CEZ Group's Bulgarian business.

March 15 (BTA) - The National Assembly terminated the credentials of Georgi Gatev as member and Deputy Chairman of the National Special Intelligence Means Control Bureau because of the withdrawal of his clearance for access to information classified as top secret. The resolution ...